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Also Known As Hilda Doolittle
Born September 10, 1886 • Bethlehem • Pennsylvania
Died September 27, 1961 (aged 75) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Bid Me to Live”
Movement / Style Imagists

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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
American writer
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Marya Mannes
American author and critic
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
Michael Strange
Michael Strange
American writer and performer
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
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Owen Dodson
American author and educator
Hovey, Richard
Richard Hovey
American writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Elijah Fenton, engraving
Elijah Fenton
British poet
James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet

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